The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

Columbia professors contributed to new research that seeks to understand an anomaly that has puzzled particle physics for ...

"Precision in these measurements is critical, as even subtle discrepancies could signal deviations from the model — ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new paper adjusts an equation that defines our universe in response to recent new data. The cosmological constant, which describes how our universe ...

About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed a contradiction in Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Published in 1915, and already widely accepted worldwide by ...

By establishing a larger principle for how things shatter, certain energy-intensive tasks could gain an advantage.

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

New results from the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab found no evidence of a hypothetical fourth flavor of neutrino ...

About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed a contradiction in Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Published in 1915, and already widely accepted worldwide by ...

Baryons are found in all of the visible matter in the universe but not in the mysterious dark matter that exerts gravitational pull but does not interact with light. In the 1990s, scientists analyzed ...

Curiosity, collaboration and a passion for discovering how the universe works have propelled this rising astrophysicist onto ...